The EU waste-law recovery operation of checking, cleaning or repairing waste products or components for re-use.
The EU Waste Framework Directive places preparing for re-use inside recovery operations. The object has already become waste, but checking, cleaning or repairing can prepare it for another use route before recycling or disposal.
This page uses the EU Waste Framework Directive definition. Keep it separate from ordinary re-use, preparation for re-use under battery terminology, repurposing, and recycling.
Directive 2008/98/EC on waste
checking, cleaning or repairing recovery operations, by which products or components of products that have become waste are prepared so that they can be re-used without any other pre-processing
Waste Framework Directive backbone definition; preserve separately from battery-specific, product-specific, or jurisdiction-specific definitions.
Reference: Article 3, point 16
Public draft page. EU Waste Framework Directive meaning; related to but distinct from ordinary re-use and battery preparation-for-re-use terminology.
Records should show the product or component identity, waste status, checking, cleaning or repair steps, responsible operator, and the reason no other pre-processing was needed before re-use.
Preparing for re-use is the evidence bridge between waste status and continued use. It shows that the object did not jump straight from collection to a vague reuse claim; specific preparation steps made the next use route credible.